Big L : Rolling Stone

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August 9, 2000

Big L Lands Week's Highest Chart Debut

Late rapper Big L debuts at No. 13, hits compilation stays on top
May 17, 1999

Arrest Made in Big L Case

Bronx suspect arrested for Big L's shooting and charged with second-degree murder
February 17, 1999

Big L Fatally Shot

Diggin' In the Crates MC, Big L, was shot and killed in Harlem on Monday

The Big Picture

Hip-hop lost Big L to the dead street-poet's society last year; he was shot and killed on a Harlem street corner. When that happened, we lost a rhymer who might have one day run neck-and-neck with Jay-Z for ultimate supremacy of Boast City. The Big Picture -- which was assembled by friends of L from...

2000 RS: 3.5of 5 Stars

Biography

Born Lamont Coleman, and a member of Fat Joe's DITC (Diggin' in the Crates) crew, Big L's first album, 1995's Lifestylez ov da Poor and Dangerous, garnered little notice, but by the late '90s he'd become one of the most well-respected underground hip-hop MCs in New York, thanks in large part to the 1998 single "Ebonics." Unfortunately, Coleman was murdered in Harlem on February 15, 1999, a couple...

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